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Sometimes you get an idea in your head and mine was to make a Heron of Alexandria Steam Engine. Heron’s Aeolipile reaction steam engine from circa 10–70 AD is just an interesting toy. But maybe it inspired a few people on the 2000 year timeline of engines?
https://youtu.be/_m71FbBtr60
More details of the dome forming here: https://www.glue-it.com/gallery/hero...-steam-engine/
Anybody interested in plans?
My version here...
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...7364#post36925
My (then young) daughters asked where I got the globe used as a boiler. I told them I took it out of the toilet. From then on, it was, for them, the toilet engine.
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maybe "War of the Worlds" - what do you think?
I love it ! Maybe a shorter three-legged alcohol burner that mirrors the shape under it. Mother "creature" and offspring ?
the final engine
https://youtu.be/T1NAfaF2Egc
what do you think?
Heron would be proud to know that his invention is still produced and enjoyed two millenia later. You have a real talent for artistic presentation.
thank you, very kindQuote:
Originally Posted by mklotz
I like it!!
I've had a lot of interest in this little engine and so thought I would talk you through the design, hope this is of some interest and use
https://youtu.be/6rQ0gVM4eE4
More importantly, the Aeolipile is proof that Heron understood both the idea that steam can provide mechanical power and the notion of action/reaction evident in the device's jets. And all this in the first century AD.
He lived in Alexandria so there's a good chance his writings were in the library. Had the dumbass Romans not burned it, we might know today that he thought of the basic idea of a steam engine - steam pushing on a piston which then pushed on some mechanism to perform a task.
Finally some close up images of this engine
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Lots more on my page about this Heron meets War of the Worlds and some notes about my inspiration for certain parts of the design. I hope you enjoy.
